Open consultation on annual methodology review for PIX Paper Price Indices

This consultation, which is open until April 14, 2026, seeks to ensure that our methodologies continue to reflect the physical market under indexation, in compliance with the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) principles for Price Reporting Agencies (PRAs). This includes all elements of our pricing process, our price specifications and publication frequency.

You can find the current methodology for PIX Paper Europe here, with the weighting table shown in the Appendix 1.

The prices subject to this annual review are as follows (market symbol, index name):

• FP-GP-0146, PIX Paper LWC
• FP-GP-0147, PIX Paper Ctd WF
• FP-GP-0148, PIX Paper A4 B-copy
• FP-GP-0149, PIX Paper Newsprint

Due to the declining graphic paper market, Fastmarkets is proposing a change on the buyers’ side of the weighting table of PIX Paper coated woodfree as follows:

Proposed new weighting table

Categories based on annual consumption of coated woodfree in Europe

	B U Y E R S
	Ctd WF		Price points
over	15,000	tonnes	6
up to	15,000		5
up to	10,000		4
up to	5,000		3
up to	2,000		2

Please send responses in writing, preferably in electronic format, to the following addresses: pricing@fastmarkets.com and graphicpaper@fastmarkets.com. Please add the subject heading ‘PIX Paper Price Indices annual review, 2026’. Please specify whether your response is confidential. Opinions offered in confidential responses may be referenced but will not be attributed in any way.

Fastmarkets will publish the outcome of this methodology review by April 28, 2026, including a summary of the feedback – with the exception of those responses marked as confidential. Any proposals to make material changes, discontinue or launch prices will involve a separate market consultation, the length of which will depend on how substantial the change is.

To see all Fastmarkets pricing methodology and specification documents, go to the Fastmarkets methodology page.